T. Elbert Chance AS '52, '59M 9M

Chance, who lives in Newark, Del., served as Director of Alumni Relations from 1951956-85. In 1988, the T. Elbert Chance student internship in the Office of Alumni and University Relations was established in his honor. In 2001, he was inducted into the University of Delaware Athletics Hall of Fame, and he has been honored with the University of Delaware Outstanding Alumnus Award. He also is an honorary member of of the University of Delaware Marching Band.

The 'voice' of Delaware Football, Chance was the football public address announcer for the last 49 seasons, retiring at the end of the season. A prolific writer, he has authored three popular books about the FightinÕ Blue Hens.

 

Allan R. Ferguson EG '65

Ferguson of Meriden, N.H., is the managing director of 3i Technology Partners, specializing in information investments with an extensive knowledge of the health-care sector, primarily drug discovery, combinatorial chemistry, bioinformatics and medical devices.

An active supporter of the University, Ferguson serves on the Chemical Engineering Advisory Board and the Delaware Research Partnership Advisory Board, and he chairs the Capital Campaign Steering Committee for the College of Engineering.

 Rakesh K. Jain EG '74M, '76PhD

Jain is the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology at Harvard Medical School and is director of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

In his research, he tries to find ways to help anti-cancer drugs penetrate solid tumors more effectively. A hallmark of his research is the integration of tumor biology with engineering sciences, particularly his understanding of fluid and molecular transport. A world leader in tumor pathophysiology, Jain holds four patents and has published more than 300 research papers and 75 reviews and commentaries es s tumor pathophysiology.

Jacqueline Jones AS '70

Jones is Truman Professor of American Civilizations and chairperson of the history department at Brandeis University. An American social historian, she has authored an extensive collection of books and articles, which share a focus on the history of labor, women, African Americans, civil rights and slavery. Her book, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to Present, won the Bancroft Prize for American History and was a finalist for the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in history.

In 1999, Jones received the MacArthur Fellowship, known as the 'genius award.'

Anthony A. Kossiakoff AS '72PhD

The Otho-Sprague Professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago, Kossiakoff consults for such leading pharmaceutical companies as Genentech Inc., and is on the scientific research board for Novartis and Bioformatics.

At the forefront of protein structure-function studies, he studies an area of biochemistry of fundamental importance to human health and disease states. His contributions in protein crystallography have led to a deeper understanding of how human growth hormone regulates metabolic processes and how alternate protein structures are connected with Alzheimer's disease.

 Stephen M. Mockbee BE '73

Mockbee, who lives in Chadds Ford, Pa., is founder and president of Bancroft Construction Co., a multidisciplined construction management firm with industrial, commercial and custom residential divisions in Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania. His firm has received numerous awards for construction excellence, and its safety program is consistently recognized on local, regional and national levels..P>Under Mockbee's leadership, Bancroft has grown from a two-person contracting company to a $100 million corporation, employing 120 people.

 Ruth Arak Toor AS '53

Toor, who retired in 2001 to Basking Ridge, N.J., has been instrumental in the Southern Boulevard School in Chatham, N.J., serving as library media specialist from 1972 to 2001. She is co-author, with Hilda Weisburg, of 11 publications, including Learning, Linking & Critical Thinking: Information Strategies for the K-12 Library Media Curriculum. In addition to the books, Toor and Weisburg managed, wrote and edited for the past 22 years The School Librarian's Workshop, a monthly journal distributed internationally.

Toor has received the President's Award of the Educational Media Association of New Jersey for outstanding leadership and service and the Lifetime Membership Award from the Educational Media Association of New Jersey.